Well yeah, Iron Man is spot on, I mostly know Black Widow from the Frank Miller Daredevil years, and I must say she looks better now but it's still a tactical S.H.I.E.L.D. uniform more than a proper superhero costume.

That clip's from '97.

To me the baggy leather just looks so heavy, you'd think he'd pass out in about 30 seconds. I get that he could get some serious road-rash wiping out at 1000MPH but leather is less appropriate for the Flash than for most. I wouldn't be surprised if they did manage to work in the magic ring costume as an "easter egg"…

The compilation "20 Reggae Classics", which came out the next year included about half the songs from that UB40 covers album and was a pretty great comp so that was kind of cool. I don't think I ever listened to UB40 again but I still listen to that album.

the Buzzcocks cover was on the second album, along with this song, but it was on the Something Wild soundtrack a couple years earlier, I thought it was really good and I didn't like this song, or album, nearly as much.

I'm all in favor of buttercream fundamentalists declaring jihad on fondant.

This is the thing that stuck me most about this story. To me those favors are utility knives. A box cutter is one of those little frames that holds a razor blade. I guess I don't know what the hijackers used but to think I've been imagining it wrong all these years is kind of crazy.

Maybe, certainly with the soundtrack (although Scorcese had done similar stuff) but there's a precedent for that in musicals, The Great Ziegfeld for example. And there was a lot of nostalgia in both fashion and music in the 60s, but it was more integrated with new stuff, not a whole retro dress-up thing like we've…

When the show was originally on I had this gigantic old console TV and there was a note in the theme that would make the whole thing rattle. That's the main thing I remember about the score, I hope they can replicate that but imagine instead it'll be doo-doo doo-doo-doo doo-doo-WUBWUBWUBWUBWUB, which is actually kind…

There's Switch with Ellen Barkin and Jimmy Smits and of course The Hot Chick, I don't know of a mother/son or father/daughter one though.

I used to make Cap'n Crunch omelettes, I still think it's a promising idea but I never managed to get the textures right. When I saw this I thought Taco Bell was coming out with some kind of Cap'n Crunch breakfast wrap and I was intrigued. I don't think I'll be making a run for the border for the first time in 15…

There was a period when I was a little kid when I was crazy about marzipan and would eat it at every opportunity and then after a few years something flipped and I thought it was gross. I did this with a bunch of my favorite foods and mostly cycled back to them but I never have with marzipan, I've had it now and then…

OK but they put The D.O.C. on the top row and he wasn't a member til end days. I only have the vinyl version but doesn't Arabian Prince have production credits for one of the dancier songs on the Straight Outta Compton CD? And he produced Supersonic, otherwise I think his only songwriting credit in NWA is Panic Zone.…

Did it have "Ya Better Bring a Gun"? That's one that I taped off the radio and then it took me another 10 years to figure out what it was. I like that Techno Hop label a lot, corny other than Ice-T, but in a charming way.

Yeah, the whole crew was behind that, Yella wouldn't look so lonely and they'd be able to fit Arabian Prince in too. Really I'd like to see the roots, World Class Wrecking Crew, C.I.A., etc. This is pretty superficial.

I think she's been flailing and mostly not making good choices, but it's interesting anyway because her arc from Disney child star to whatever is kind of a public teenage tantrum. But this looks like a genuinely good choice and she's working with some cool people and highlighting her singing, I think this goes in the…

Nah, I think the rockist thing is mostly a problem with other rock critics, and I guess on like guitar forums. But it's not an "ism" like racism, it's just a dumb critical perspective that's stuck in the 70s. It's not a straw man though, check out Joe Carducci's "Rock & The Pop Narcotic", that's rockist in a nutshell.

Caterina Murino was only 28 or 29 when she did Casino Royale, she is a few years older than Eva Green but hardly middle-aged. Berenice Marlohe was 33, but it's still a bigger gap in age. Belluci is actually older than Craig, which is bold, but he's 47 now, finding the one 50-year-old in the world who's that hot is…

For me part of it is that I saw it when I was a kid and was reading the books, having hated Moonraker so much I appreciated that OHMSS was a good adaptation. Now I definitely like the cheesiness of the films more than the creepier cheesiness of the books but it's still a virtue that none of the later films have.

Live and Let Die is like a long Chevy commercial, the credits open with thanks to GM. Bond usually has something Corgi can sell toys of but there are plenty of civilian cars too.